Band 5 Trainee Clinical Photographer

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Community services are a key part of the NHS of the future. Be part ofthat future now.

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We are excited to offer a Trainee Band 5 Clinical Photographer opportunity to work in an award-winning department that is located in the Birmingham Dental Hospital. Providing Clinical, Non-clinical Photography, and supporting Video services to the staff of Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and other external agencies.

We are seeking an enthusiastic, conscientious and motivated photographer who is able to demonstrate the ability to work both independently as well as within a multi-disciplinary team. Excellent communication and organisational skills are required with the ability to prioritise own workload, work unsupervised, and use own initiative to contribute to the efficient running of the department.

The successful candidate will be required to undertake a funded postgraduate certificate in Clinical Photography, run by Staffordshire University.

• Supporting the Tele-dermatology service in partnership with University Hospitals of Birmingham.
• Responsible for delivering day to day operational cost effective, efficient clinical and allied section within the department, which provides a photographic, video, multimedia and graphic design service to Birmingham Dental Hospital and other agencies including the directorates of Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust.
• Contribute to the provision of a clinical photographic, audio-visual and information design service inline with modern imaging technology, which is responsive to the needs of clinicians, Trust staff andother health care professionals in their care of patients.
• Participates in the development of services and CPD activities.
• Consult with and provide advice to users of the service, ensuring that requests are understood and undertaken accurately.
• Performs clinical duties, assesses and undertakes own workload of patients / clients and maintains associated records.

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Be Part of Our Team...

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry.

We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

Clinical Photography

• Provide photographic material of clinical cases that clinicians require as part of their diagnostic and treatment records and which may also be required for teaching, research or publication.
  
  Responding to requests from clinical staff at the Dental Hospital, from Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust’s other directorates and also professionals from other agencies.
• Clinical photography of patients in the studio, on clinicand at other sites. To perform specialist clinical photography including intra-oral dental photography requiring the accurate placement and control of lip retractors and mirrors in the patient’s mouth.
• Undertake the photography of patients with non-accidental injury (NAI) or trauma and to undertake medico-legal photography for the Trust, solicitors or police evidence. On rare occasion may be required to attend court cases as an expert witness.
• Photography of specimens, dentures and appliances following departmental technical operational guidelines and the Trust cross infection policy.
• To liaise with clinical staff ensuring a smooth flow of patients in the clinics.
• To clearly explain the…